Dalong was just about ready and planned to go out to the street to buy some food. He had barely eaten anything in the past few days and only drank medicine.
I bought two multigrain pancakes and ate them while walking. A weak voice came from behind.
"Brother, can you help me? We two haven't eaten in two days."
Dalong looked back and saw a woman sitting on the side of the road. She was unkempt and her face was covered in black and gray. Her age was indistinguishable. She was holding a baby in her arms. The woman's clothes were covered in patches and her true colors could not be seen. Even The quilt covering the child was also covered in patches.
The woman stretched out a skinny hand to him, her eyes full of hope.
The child was too young, only a few months old, but he was skinny and skinny, and his few fetal hairs were withered and yellow. When Dalong saw this, his heart felt like a knife pricking him.
He handed the pancake in his hand to the woman and watched her eat it with big mouthfuls. He choked and rolled his eyes, so he took the broken water bowl next to the woman and let her drink her water smoothly.
Dalong asked: "Where are your gentlemen?"
After hearing this, the woman started crying, with runny nose and tears. After a long time, she sobbed and said that her man was captured by the Japanese half a month ago. Someone told her that her man was the thief. He stole Japanese food and was captured and shot by the Japanese.
The two of them had no source of livelihood, so they went around begging for food. They had been without food for two days. Not only did the adults have no food, but the child also had no milk. When the child woke up, he was so hungry that he cried. sleep. She was already desperate, and if she didn't survive today, she was going to throw her child into the river.
Dalong is a kind-hearted young man who lost his parents when he was young, and he and Erlong depend on each other to make ends meet. I can't bear to see this human tragedy.
He looked around and found about thirty yuan, took it all out and gave it to the woman.
"Sister, you take this money. No matter what, you have to feed your children first. Go buy some food first!"
After saying that, he quickly turned around and left. He was afraid that the tears in his eyes would flow out and make people laugh.
This more than thirty yuan is actually enough for this woman to live for a year. Dalong grew up in a bandit's den and has no idea about money.
In the evening, Dalong was a little hungry again. When he took out his pocket, he remembered that he had impulsively given away all his money to others, and he didn't even keep any money for dinner. He couldn't help but feel dumbfounded.
Wandering aimlessly along the street, he realized that not only did he have no food to eat, but he also had no place to stay at night because he had just checked out of the car shop in the morning.
Then, he heard the weak voice again: "Brother, haven't you eaten either?"
Da Long turned around and saw the woman again. The woman came over and pulled Da Long's sleeve and said, "I saw you gave me all the money you had this morning. I guess you don't have money to eat either? Let's go." , go to my house, and I will cook you a meal. You are a good person, a good person that is rare to see in a century." She shed tears as she spoke, and two white marks flowed out from the tears on her dusty face.
This woman lived in a small cellar near the edge of the town, which was quite large, with a kang bed and a complete set of pots and stoves.
The woman brought out a steamed steamed bun, a bowl of cornstarch porridge, and a plate of shredded pickles from the pot, and brought them to Dalong. While watching Dalong eat, the woman fed the child the cooled porridge.
"These grains were just bought. The child was starving, so he cooked a pot of porridge first. Brother, if you don't mind it, you can eat it here in the future. Anyway, it's made in one pot. As long as you don't mind my cooking. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t taste good.”
Dalong chewed something in his mouth and purred, "I don't dislike it, I don't dislike it."
After Dalong finished eating, he saw that the water in the tank was only at the bottom, and what was burning on the stove were corn stalks. Just say, "Shall I fetch some water and chop some firewood? Is there anything you can do?"
The woman found a wooden barrel and said, "There is only one barrel left. That one has been broken for a long time."
Dalong had a lot of strength. After a while, the water tank was full, and there was a tall stack of firewood. These were all logs and firewood, which could be burned.
Then Dalong was about to leave, but was held back by a woman. The woman said: "You don't even have money for a hotel? Where can you go? Just live here! Give me so much money, but I can't give you a place to live?"
Dalong scratched his head and said, "Isn't this inconvenient?" The woman said, "I'm not afraid of a woman, so what are you afraid of?" Dalong couldn't resist her, and thought that he really had no place to live. , and agreed.
The woman's name is Meizi, she is the same age as Dalong, also nineteen, and two months younger than Dalong. Her family was from Fusong. Just a year after getting married, her husband brought her here when he came to work in the grain depot. He died from a Japanese gunshot more than ten days ago.
In the evening, Dalong brought some hay and planned to make a bed on the ground. Meizi stepped forward and threw the hay out, saying that there was an underground tide, so he should sleep on the kang.
Dalong lay on the bed, staring into the darkness, unable to sleep at all.
Then he felt a warm body approaching him and hugged him. Dalong was startled and tried to sit up, but was held down by Meizi.
In the darkness, Meizi murmured: "You saved our lives. I have nothing to repay you for. I only have this body. Don't dislike me."
Dalong is a raw melon and egg, how can he pass by this? Just when he wanted to speak, his mouth was blocked by a soft lips. Dalong's mind went blank.
In the early morning, there was a rooster crow outside. Dalong woke up and saw Meizi getting up early and sitting on the edge of the kang to feed her child. The sunlight that came in through the crack of the door fell on Meizi's head and face, giving her a golden glow. Bian'er.
Meizi's clean and delicate face looked gentle. He looked up and saw that Dalong was awake and smiled at him, which was indescribably good-looking.
Dalong goes to the car shop every day to see if Xiao Wuzi is back? He also got acquainted with the manager of the big car shop and asked him to help keep an eye on him. He was afraid that Xiao Wuzi would not be able to find him when he came back.
On this day, Dalong's gun disappeared. Dalong searched all over the house, but it was nowhere to be found.
Dalong asked: "Meizi, have you seen my gun? This is a life-threatening thing, so you can't lose it." As he said this, he looked for it, but found that Meizi did not answer him, but lowered his head and wiped tears by the stove.
Dalong panicked, squatted in front of Meizi, and asked cautiously: "Meizi, what's wrong? If you have any grievances, please tell me. Did I do something wrong? We are a family. If you have something to say, let's talk about it together. Think of ways to."
When Meizi heard him talking about a family, she threw herself into Dalong's arms and cried, "Wow..." and knocked Dalong to the ground.
Meizi hugged Dalong's neck, put her face against his chest, and said aggrievedly while crying: "If you keep that thing, do you still want to fight with others? Don't you think about it, if you have three advantages and two disadvantages, , how can I live?"
Dalong has actually been struggling with this for a while. He originally planned to wait for Xiao Wuzi to come back, but now he has a family and someone to care about.
The thought of being separated from the woman who was attached to him made Dalong feel like he was being cut by a knife.
Dalong raised his hand to wipe Meizi's tears, and said softly but firmly: "I'm not leaving. When my brother comes back, I will tell him that I have a family, a wife and children, and I won't go with him. I have to Earn money to support the family.”
When Meizi heard this, Lihua smiled sweetly and hugged Dalong tighter.
After a while, he raised his head again and said to Dalong: "I hid your gun and buried it under the small tree in front of the door. If you don't leave, why don't you dig it out and wait for your brother to come back and give it to him?"
Dalong couldn't help but feel a little funny. This silly woman thought that if she hid the gun, Dalong wouldn't leave.
But when I thought that she did this because she couldn't bear to leave by herself, I was extremely moved. He also held her tightly and coaxed her softly until her tears turned into laughter.
In this way, Dalong settled down in this small town. He would still go to the big car shop every day to wait for Xiao Wuzi. He originally promised to come back in two or three days. It has been five or six days, why haven't he come back yet? Dalong is a little worried. Nothing will happen to Xiao Wuzi, right?
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A small river meanders and flows slowly at the foot of the green hills. There are two graves buried side by side on a beautiful hillside. The weeds that were half a man tall have just been cleared and some new soil has been added.
Xiaowuzi burned some papyrus, lit a stick of incense for each of his two fathers, and kowtowed three times each. Then he sat in front of the grave and started chatting with his father, starting from the time his father left until he came back this time.
Mainly he was talking to his godfather, the palace minister, because his biological father died when he couldn't remember much, and he didn't have much impression of his biological father.
When the palace minister was alive, Xiao Wuzi asked him: "Dad, what kind of person is my real father?"
The palace minister stroked his hair and said with a smile: "He's big and good-looking. Among our buddies, he has the best looks. If you grow up a few years, you'll look like him. He's good at everything, but he's a bit awkward. Why don't you call me Liu Erlengzi?"
This was the first time that Xiaowuzi knew his biological father's nickname, and then he asked again: "Dad, what is your nickname?"
The palace minister laughed and scolded: "What the hell do I call Qi Xiaozi?" Xiao Wuzi laughed loudly after hearing this. These two father nicknames are not good.
When Xiaowuzi came down from the mountain, he found a large car shop to stay overnight in Hongshilizi.
Hongshilizi, the Japanese took over the forest farm after September 18th. Loot a lot of resources from here. A large market town formed here.
Xiaowuzi has been here before. At that time, he had to go on a mission and came and went in a hurry, and he didn't have time to take a look around. This time, I had time. Xiaowuzi walked around the town for a whole day, but he didn't see anyone familiar.
Originally, he had a glimmer of hope that he could find his lone Anti-Union comrades, but looking at the situation, this was basically impossible.
